Large cabinet with softwood core, covered with gilded leathe - Lot 114

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Large cabinet with softwood core, covered with gilded leathe - Lot 114
Large cabinet with softwood core, covered with gilded leather on the outside, opening with a flap and revealing eleven drawers and two small leaves opening onto a niche. The interior is decorated in light or stained wood marquetry. The flap is decorated with musical instruments, while the drawer fronts depict a city amid scrolls and clumps of plants. The hinges are in wrought iron, and the front lock is gilded. The exterior is covered in gilded red leather with a Fanfare-style decoration, in a rich composition of scrolls, medallions and ovals decorated with semi-circles, oak foliage and foliage scrolls. Southern Germany, early 17th century, binding attributed to Clovis Eve, first third of the 17th century H.: 48 cm - W.: 75.5 cm - D.: 34 cm (small tears and slight accidents) This German cabinet has been unusually covered with a bookbinding attributed to Clovis Eve (1565 - 1634), a famous French bookbinder of the Renaissance, active from 1583 to 1633. The son of a bookbinder, in 1583 he officially became the "King's Bookbinder", serving Henri III, Henri IV and Louis XIII. He was a major proponent of the "fanfare" binding. The gilding completely covers the boards, and consists of compartments, each delimited by parallel fillets. The interiors of these surfaces are decorated with branches and foliage, scrolls and palmettes, and semis. The center of the dish is decorated with an oval or medallion, sometimes embellished with a coat of arms. Two objects conserved at the Musée National de la Renaissance can be compared with our cabinet: the leather cabinet (inv n° E.Cl.7722) (fig. a), which is very similar to the cabinet shown here, but also the box bearing the Diodo coat of arms (inv n° E.Cl.13590) (fig. b), by Clovis Eve, with its rich fanfare decoration. Book consulted: Un temps d'exubérance, les arts décoratifs sous Louis XIII et Anne d'Autriche, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Palais, April 9 - July 8, 2002, exhibition catalog, pp 418- 420
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